• Question: do you think we could find anything to exell our health care in space ?

    Asked by cheeseballs to Adam, Catherine, Karen, Leila, Nazim on 13 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Karen Masters

      Karen Masters answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      I’m not sure I understand your question. Could you try asking it again in a different way for me. Sorry. 😉

    • Photo: Adam Stevens

      Adam Stevens answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      We have found out lots of great things about health care from the International Space Station already.

      Apart from understanding how the body adapts to space, there is a lot of research going on into diseases, as they tend to grow and behave differently in space. Astronauts on the ISS have already helped to develop new treatments.

    • Photo: Leila Battison

      Leila Battison answered on 19 Mar 2012:

      Lots of experiments have been done on the space station and in Spacelab on the Space Shuttle, but they mostly apply to health care in space.

      I love to think that in hundred of years time, if we find alien life elsewhere in our galaxy, we might be able to explore it like the early scientists explored the natural world on earth, and find ‘natural’ alien cures to diseases. Aspirin came from a willow tree, so maybe a cure for the cold could come from an alien tree!

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